This 650-page report provides a comprehensive marketing and technological assessment, as well as medical rationale and diagnostic prospects for nearly 80 infectious diseases and viruses, including their scientific background, clinical significance and market needs for both current and emerging tests, vaccines, drugs and extensive listings of companies developing or marketing new technologies and products.

a. Backgroundb. Diagnostic Testsc. Vaccines and Drugs Development of Polysaccharide Vaccines Quadrivalent Vaccine Development Meningococcal A.C.Y. & W-135 Vaccines Efficacy of Group C Vaccine Efficacy of Group A Vaccine Combinations of Group A and C Vaccines Group B Efficacy Trials Future Direction